quote:Originally posted by renrob05:I'm also a women, and I know that i am just as talented at stocks as you if not better.

Not to beat a dead horse but why did you post here Renrob? This IS Purl's off topic thread, she can post what she wants. Beside...if you really are a " women " you should be happy to have a compatriot here to rep the feminine intellect among all these guys who are for some odd reason drooling to learn all about gardening. LOL

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posted August 10, 200618:38
I was gonna go there Bigfoot, but Purl handled it well.

I think many women here resent all the attention Purl gets, but how many women you know, know about stocks, mechanics, gardening, Indian culture, english lit, programming. I have a feeling that isn't a complete list either. Let's face it, there isn't exactly women like this all over the place.

Now Bigfoot, I'm not sure what you mean by that last remark, I get extremely excited by the thought of a gardening lesson, so much so, that yes, it sometimes does result in drooling.

posted August 10, 200619:49
Hell, I'm still waiting areund here cause I was hopin to find out what a "women" is.

Reminds me about how mad a certain major state university was when I pointed out that the signs they had installed on all the restrooms in a new building didn't reflect well on their attention to scholarship.

I asked them to explain to me exactly what the words "MENS" and "WOMENS" were. I asked if they were expecting green bipeds from Mars to show up so there would be more than one sort of men and more than one sort of women.

When they announced it was a possessive, they blew their top when I explaimed that it was customary to have an apostrophe included in a possessive, IF you expected to look scholarly.

posted August 10, 200622:00
Now, onward and upward into more exciting topics.

Do you boys know how many hundreds of picturesI have provided for you?

Rock N Roll Indians!

Of course the band is playing Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" after all many believe us tobe nothing more than wild savages.

No chain link fence around the band, no brokenbeer bottles, no crazy drugged out freaks leapingoff the stage, no Hells Angels guards.

I comment we are all about children, our family.For an event like this, at a powwow, childrenare encouraged to come up and sit right on thestage, and they do. Quite clear those kids aretotally absorbed by the band.

Yes, he is a tribal chief playing guitar.

American Indians are all about children andhonoring our ancestors. Kids and dignity, veryimportant to us. Maybe this cultural aspect willhelp you to understand why I become so angry whenpeople bring hatred here, bring dishonor here.

In our culture, when a member dishonors himself,really dishonors himself, he is banned from ourlands, often for good.

Honor can be exemplified by a custom, not practicedtoday but well respected. When an Indian woman losesher brave, her husband, and she is too old to fend for herself, she will "walk off" out intothe wilderness to die. None try to save her, nonetry to help her. Doing so would be to disrespecther. She is doing the Good for the tribe. She hasbecome a burden to the tribe and her last act ofprotecting her tribe family, is to sacrifice herlife so she will not be a burden.

posted August 10, 200622:06
Most of the boys here are probably too youngto remember old women who roll their nylonsdown their knees to help keep them up becausethose old women have become so fat, no garterbelt fits them anymore.

A semi-permanent encampment. Note the car in thebackground to provide scale. These are not smalltepee, not at all!

You can see black soot on the tepee top near thecar, and the third tepee from your left, no yourother left. Those vents to let out smoke and tocontrol temperature. Two poles inside are attachedto those flaps for adjustment. A campfire is alwaysin the center of a tepee, living quarters areringed around the outside edge. These tepee arethe equal to our common family home, but canhold ten to twenty people, quite comfortably.

She is honored for something. Her hair bears aneagle feather which signals she is to be respected,is an important member of her tribe. At her youngage, maybe an apprentice medicine woman, a learningshaman, or she is very talented in some activity.

Today, all Indians are honored for activities whichmay not be traditional. She could very well be apublic school teacher, a nurse or similar.

posted August 10, 200623:26
I know, Tex. You are a man of education and awareness.

About the most close event we see in the Angloworld, maybe church services? Halloween?

Many Asian cultures engage in traditional activities,like Indians. Certainly a lot of South Americancultures do, but they are of Indian lineage. Thereare a lot of cultures around the world who taketradition very seriously.

Tradition, though, seems lost upon typical Anglocultures. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July,those are traditional but events of this typenumber so few for Anglos.

During my childhood, ornery adults told us storiesabout a catfish which eats children.

Grassy Lake borders our farm on the back forty,probably a good quarter of mile of lakeshore.Southeast Oklahoma is very wet, very green andvery overgrown, much like an Amazon jungle;dark and spooky. In some areas, the canopyoverhead is so thick, daylight never seems to come.

Toss in the world's greatest population ofticks and chiggers, zillions and zillions,and Eagletown becomes a place out to killyou and eat you, every step you take.

We kids are told of this one-hundred poundcatfish, five-hundred pound catfish, halfton catfish, depending on who is telling thestory and how much White Lightning wets the story teller's lips.

"Tellin' ya, child, that catfish swims up nearshoreline, down there by Mudline Road, slithersits stinging whiskers up on shore, then danglesthem over trees to look like vines. One of youyoung-ins comes walking along and that centuryold catfish wraps one of its whiskers 'roundyour neck, gets a good grip so yall can't hollerfor help. Right quick, that old catfish commencesstinging you with those whiskers and soon you're plain stupefied and can't move. Then it drags you right on into the lake then swallows you whole, while you are still alive! You best stay away from that lake, child."

Intent of this story is keep kids away from thelake so not to fall in and drown.

Any wonder I am crazy after growing up thinkinga huge catfish is out to swallow me whole?

posted August 11, 200608:39
please keep posting your native american pix - both them and their descriptions are very educational and interesting.i will try to remember to stay away from the catfish after too much fire water !